Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science

The Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science was established in 1889 by the will of Columbia University president Frederick A. P. Barnard, and has been awarded by Columbia University, based on recommendations by the National Academy of Sciences, every 5 years since 1895. It is not to be confused with the Barnard Medal of Distinction. 1895 - John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, William Ramsay 1900 - Wilhelm Röntgen 1905 - Henri Becquerel 1910 - Ernest Rutherford 1915 - William Henry Bragg, William Lawrence Bragg 1920 - Albert Einstein 1925 - Niels Bohr 1930 - Werner Heisenberg 1935 - Edwin Hubble 1940 - Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Irène Joliot-Curie 1945 - No award 1950 - Enrico Fermi 1955 - Merle Tuve 1960 - I. I. Rabi 1965 - William Alfred Fowler 1970 - No award 1975 - Louis Plack Hammett 1980 - André Weil 1985 - Benoit Mandelbrot 1990 - No award 1995 - No award 2000 - No award 2005 - No award 2010 - No award “The Trustees of Columbia College shall cause to be struck, with suitable devices, a medal of gold, nine-tenths fine, of the bullion value of not less two hundred dollars, to be styled “THE BARNARD MEDAL FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICE TO SCIENCE,” and shall publicly announce that a copy of the same will be awarded, at the close of every quinquennial period, dating from the probate of this my last Will and Testament, to such person, whether a citizen of the United States of or any other country, as shall, within the five years next preceding, have made such discovery in physical or astronomical science, or such novel application of science to purposes beneficial to the human race, as, in the judgment of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, shall be esteemed most worthy of such an honor. And I make it my request that the said National Academy of Sciences shall charge itself with the duty of declaring to the Trustees of Columbia College, aforesaid, at the close of every term of five years, as above defined, the name of the person whom they judge worthy to receive such medal, with a statement of the reasons on which their judgment is founded; and that upon such declaration and nomination, the Trustees shall proceed to award the said medal, and shall transmit the same to the person entitled to receive it, accompanied by a diploma or certificate attesting the fact and the occasion of the award.